The Tablet PC: Expensive but cool

Still not too sure about the Tablet PC. Regardless of price, will people ever adapt to that sort of form factor? I am just not totally convinced yet. As of this minute, the jury is still out.

Well, there is such a device, called the Tablet PC, and once again, PDA users have been moving to these new, more powerful devices in an effort to get as much computing power in as small a package as possible.

Tablet PCs are certainly larger than PDAs - in fact, they’re usually just slightly smaller than ultra-thin notebooks - but that’s where the similarity ends. Tablets are much more akin to PDAs in that they can recognize users’ handwriting, like the Graffiti function on a Palm Pilot. Tablets run a special version of Windows (based on XP) that can automatically recognize a user’s handwriting and convert it to typed text. (Source: David Shamah, The Jerusalem Post)